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China Imagined From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power

Lee Gregory B.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380165, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name "China" was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and i...

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Invention of Madness State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China

Baum Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780226558240, ISBN: HB: 9780226580616, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began...

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End of the Asian Century War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

Auslin Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239980, ISBN: HB: 9780300212228, Yale University Press, October 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to wa...

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Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19

Hardiman David

ISBN: HB: 9781849049702, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Much of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been extremely successful. Although the f...

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Islam

Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Balci Bayram

ISBN: HB: 9781849049689, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
248 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, a major turning point in all former Soviet republics, Central Asian and Caucasian countries began to reflect on their history and identities. As a consequence of their opening up to the...

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Singapore, Singapura From Miracle to Complacency

Walton Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781787380103, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago, it was thrown out of the Malay Federation and unwillingly became an independent nation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighbourhood. Now, this...

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Criminology

Nightmarch Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas

Shah Alpa

ISBN: HB: 9781849049900, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up o...

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Imperial Disaster The Bengal Cyclone of 1876

Kingsbury Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9781849048866, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were flowing high and fast to the sea. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and isla...

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Asia

Georgia A Cultural History Through the Wardrop Collection

Aleksidze Nikoloz

ISBN: HB: 9781851244959, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2018
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 75 illus.

When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these transformative years, they actively participated in the work of I...

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Sacred Mandates Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan

Brook Timothy, van Walt van Praag Michael, Boltjes Miek

ISBN: PB: 9780226562766, ISBN: HB: 9780226562629, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning".Sacred Mandates", edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, red...

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